Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century

Chapter 3: Is Empowerment Just a Fad? Control, Decision Making, and IT

Table 3.1: Choosing Centralization or Decentralization

Table 3.2: Costs of Various Decision-Making Structures

Chapter 4: Beyond Computation—Information Technology, Organizational Transformation, and Business Performance

Table 4.1: Work Practices at MacroMed as Described in the Corporate Vision Statement Introduction of computer-based equipment was accompanied by an even larger set of complementary changes

Table 4.2: Annual (measured) Productivity Growth for Selected Industries Calculation by Gordon (1998) based on dividing BEA gross output by industry figures by BLS hours worked by industry for comparable sectors

Chapter 10: Tools for Inventing Organizations—Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes

Table 10.1: Examples of Elementary Dependencies between Activities and Alternative Coordination Mechanisms for Managing Them

Table 10.2: Summary of Current Contents of the Process Handbook Database (as of 10/1/97)

Chapter 13: The Comparative Advantage of X-Teams

Table 13.1: Studies that Served as Basis for X-teams Research

Chapter 14: Eight Imperatives for the New IT Organization

Table 14.1: Eight Imperatives for the IT Organization

Chapter 16: Building a New Social Contract at Work—A Call to Action

Table 16.1: Key Features of a Social Contract